The Boss [LGBT]

Chapter 10

"They stayed up all night trying to convince some guy that they couldn't do what he wanted. They ended up going to our apartment."

Michael was driving me to his apartment where Emilio and Lafayette were at. They had been gone for four hours, so obviously it was a difficult guy. Hopefully the guy would understand in the end or they'd make some deal. I remembered what Lafayette said about how some people would get really angry if he couldn't do a favor for them. I shook the thought from my head when we pulled up to a tall apartment complex.

Emilio and Michael lived in a penthouse. Since they both made so much money and shared rent, then they could afford to live in a penthouse while also being able to splurge on themselves. We went up to the penthouse and it was like Lafayette's townhouse confined to one large floor, but kind of smaller. They had a very modern and yet hippie-esque type of theme going on. Very cozy.

We went into the den area where Emilio and Lafayette were at. Their couch was really weird but cool because there was one stationary part that looked like a regular couch, but then there were these seats and ottomans that could roll to the couch so it kind of made a bed and you just sort of latched them together, which is what Emilio and Lafayette did. They were lying on the bed-couch together, both passed out from exhaustion, looking cute as they cuddled up to each other.

"You can sit down. I'll get you a glass of hot chocolate," Michael said, tossing his bag and coat.

I sat down on one of the small other couches, taking off my coat. Michael came back with two mugs of hot chocolate and whip cream, handing one to me as he sat down with me. "I've been meaning to ask you," I said. "How did you all meet?"

"Well, Lafayette and I grew up in the same town and everything but he went to one elementary school and I went to the other, but in middle school that's when we kind of met. We got acquainted in sixth grade but in seventh grade is when we actually became friends. That's the year Emilio moved to town, too. We ended up joining the football team and that's how we got to know each other. I hated football, Emilio liked it but hadn't played, and Lafayette didn't mind it but he was forced to play it and so he started to dislike it. There was one day when the coach was yelling at me because I sucked so bad and everyone thought I was gay anyway and he was kind of a homophobe so he was just picking on me. Plus, he didn't like Hispanics, and so after he was done yelling at me and mortifying me in front of all those jerks who talked shit about me behind my back, he yelled at Emilio, but Emilio was actually pretty good at it.

So there was the coach, shouting at us, and then Lafayette did this really great thing. He went up to the coach and told him to stop yelling at us. The coach liked Lafayette and so he was thrown off, but let's face it - everyone likes Lafayette. The coach tried to argue with him but Lafayette was like..." Michael laughed. "He was talking to the coach like he was his boss kind of, which is just funny because he's everyone's boss now. It was just funny because he was a seventh grader telling this coach to shut up. He then said practice was over and told Emilio and I to come with him and we just rode our bikes together to a small creek and hung out. We were inseparable ever since. Then with Vince and Donald, since they were Lafayette's neighbors, Lafayette introduced us to them and they became like our second set of parents and we'd go to their house a lot just to get away and actually, you know, be gay."

"That's kind of funny that you all turned out to be gay," I said.

"Yeah, but there were rumors about me all through middle and high school, and so that's one reason why Lafayette wanted to befriend me. The coach yelled at alot of people but Lafayette stood up for me because he thought I was, and he noticed the way Emilio had looked at me before so he thought Emilio was gay and he just decided to stick up for us gay boys."